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    make my slow pilgrimage through the world, a certain sense of beautiful mystery seems to gather and grow, " A.C. Benson. In the Canterbury Tales, Geoffrey Chaucer speaks of a pilgrimage, or religion journey, and the many people who go with him. The tales are made up of each persons story that they tell along the way. Each of these characters adds to his great story told by Chaucer, however, the question is posed, who could he had from this century that would influence this pilgrimage? There are many

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    Canterbury Tales Analysis

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    In Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales, various people band together to go on a pilgrimage from England to Canterbury. Their aim is to see a shrine of St Thomas Beckett, the revered Archbishop of Canterbury who had reportedly healed others when they were ill. The pilgrims have a variety of occupations and are divided fairly evenly amongst the three estates (clergy, nobility, and commoners). The pilgrims who are members of the clergy are ironically depicted as the least moral, compared to the

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    I. Introduction Pilgrimages are the peaceful gatherings of people at sacred places such as, Kumbh Mela in India or Hajj in Saudi Arabia. The pilgrimages at places like Tirupati temple, Amarnath, Vaishnodevi, Jagannath Puri, Pandharpur are a few more examples in India. Millions of people from all around the world, gather to perform their rituals at these places. During these pilgrimages, pilgrims getting lost in the crowd is quite common. Finding the lost person is a difficult task not only for

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    family vacation. What I did not know was that I would be stuck sitting on a donkey for over ten hours climbing up a 15,000 foot mountain. My dad invited me to go to Hemkund Sahib, which is a Sikh holy mountain where thousands of Sikhs make their pilgrimage each year. As a 13 year old I was thinking, “Wow! I get to climb a mountain! Of course I’m going!” However, I did not know what I was throwing myself into. In this paper I will be applying Turner and Turner’s theory and framework to my experience

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    Throughout the Middle Ages travel is represented in many different forms and is seen in many different groups, especially within the world of the Franciscan monks. Constantly on the move, these mendicant friars faced many trials and tribulations throughout their journeys. The monks were forced to be constantly on the move, never able to claim a home of their own and were under constant ridicule from those around them, causing problems and riffs as they went. The poem, “Preste, Ne Monke, Ne Yit Chanoun”

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    Pilgrimage /Christian, Muslim A Study of the Christian Pilgrimage to the Holy Land And the Muslim Pilgrimage to Mecca SSC 231 Cultural Conflict and Human Solidarity University College Utrecht May 2001 Introduction A French folklorist and ethnographer, Arnold Van Gennep (1908-1960) gave us the first clues about how ancient and tribal societies conceptualized and symbolized the transitions men have to make between states a statuses . He demonstrated that all rites of passage are marked

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    More Than Mere Trifles

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    church’s suggestions were spoken by God’s own voice. The Church encouraged pilgrimages to various holy places, or shrines, to search for spiritual enlightenment and penitence from sin. This ideology says that if one were to pray at a shrine, one could be forgiven of one’s sins, thus increasing the chance of going to Heaven after an earthly death. Those suffering from a plethora of aliments and other illnesses might also make a pilgrimage in the hope of being healed of it. For whatever their reason, pilgrims

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    population boomed and the overall spirituality of the Christian believers grew even larger. Thus began the social and spiritual tradition of the Pilgrimages. When someone chooses to become a pilgrim, they lose their social standing and become something all their own. People from all walks of life would feel free to talk and converse with anyone who is on a Pilgrimage. It is interesting to note that even though these journeys were very popular around this time, they were invented somewhere around the fourth

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    Etheria Vs Etheria

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    Etheria (The) Pilgrim Vs The World Pilgrimage was a widely occurring phenomena in the Middle Ages. While not all were documented, a Spanish Abbess named Etheria transcribed her journey in letters to her sisters. Her goal was to get to Jerusalem, and she stayed there for three years to visit various Christian religious sites. We are unsure exactly who she was, how long her travels were, or where exactly she came from. But by using this story in conjunction with various church mandates and historical

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    In the General Prologue of Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales, the Host instructs the pilgrims to tell ‘“Tales of best sentence and moost solaas’” (GP 798). In other words, in order to win the contest, the pilgrims must tell stories which both impart serious meaning/wisdom (“sentence”) as well as entertainment (“solaas”). While the pilgrims all achieve these two goals to varying degrees, The Pardoner’s Tale seems at first to succeed very well in providing both moral teaching and entertainment. However, while

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